Weekly Roundup January 17, 2019 – Our top 2018 posts, Slack, G Suite, and More

Why read this with nearly infinite news on the internet? We try to pick good articles you might like, and we think you might chuckle a little at our interpretation of the headlines. 

Check out some of Alpin’s most popular posts in 2018:

• Top 10 GDPR Frameworks

• The SaaS Management Spreadsheet

• G Suite vs Office365

SaaS Product Updates

Slack has a new logo. This is a big deal for some reason. C’mon, they’re only valued at… over $8 billion!

G Suite introduces better fonts, buttons, and other visual (but not functional) improvements. So… hopefully fewer helpdesk tickets from O365 refugees that can’t quite find the identical feature in G Suite?

Smartsheet acquires Slope. Cool: their announcement has examples of how their customers could use Slope + Smartsheet for automation of certain tasks. So… Smartsheet is a LITTLE more than an Excel / Sheets competitor

Tips and Tricks

Atlassian shares how to rescue your 2019 resolutions by working smarter. Whoa, WHOA — I’ve been working hard at forgetting my resolutions, thank you very much.

Hard to beat this headline from Okta, “How 83% of IT and Admin Leaders Increased Productivity in Their Organizations” Article includes quick-hit case studies with stats.

I know “big data sets” and “Google Sheets” don’t always work well together, but now you can use BigQuery inside Sheets for easy data analysis. To be fair, this is pretty awesome for $5 a month.

Security

Newsflash: humans are bad at cybersecurity. Everyone PANIC! That’s basically the article, but with a few more (interesting) details.

If you’re worried our digital security future, have some hope by reading about this cybersecurity training program for teens that just tripled in size.

Somehow, this writer missed one category when talking about employees as a cybersecurity liability: SaaS, with its data access permissions and other dangers. It’s literally why Alpin exists!

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